I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.

Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.